Welcome! Here is a podcast on Spiders:
Brett Westwood tells us why we find spiders in the bath, as well as many fascinating facts about these eight-legged creatures – we hope you enjoy it
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Part of the Maligned Species project: a free online resource involving both ecologists and poets – the aim is to encourage poetry-writing on the subject of spiders, frogs, stinging nettles, and grey squirrels – culminating in four poetry ebooks – one on each subject.
Monies from the sale of the Spiders ebook (priced £2.99 and available from February 2016) will be donated to Buglife.Submissions for poetry will be open in January 2016
Thanks for this blog Pete Boardman fantastic blog from an entomologist extraordinaire x praise indeed – yes – I could listen to Brett Westwood for days and days on end ! AND we got to see ivy bees and the nigma spider in Stourbridge !! Nadia x
Listeners may be interested in a fantasy series about intelligent man-eating spiders called Spider World by Colin Wilson!
It is a wonderful podcast, isn’t it Kaite? Brett Westwood is such a lovely man – and so jam-packed full of facts and love for the subject. And yours is a wonderful blog, Kaite. Thanks for inviting me as guest blogger 🙂 Nadia x